Combined box and bag package for room fragrant potpourri

• US 4,905,898 A
• Filed: 05/26/1988
• Issued: 03/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aromatique Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aromatique Incorporated
• Inventors: Wade, Phillip C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Assistant Examiner(s): Forman, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US07/198,834
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 239/6, 239/34, 239/55-58, 239/60, 220/403, 220/404, 229/162
• US Class Current: 239/6
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/12 Apparatus, e.g. holders, therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/905 Odor releasing material

Abstract

An aesthetically enhanced carton having an opening in one wall through which the open top of a bag is laced or threaded enabling the bag to be supported and enclosed within the carton while communicating the interior of the bag and the exterior of the carton through a passage extending through the neck of the bag. When used with room fragrant potpourri, the scent of the potpourri is controllably released to the ambient.

Claims

1. A combined carton and bag package for room fragrant potpourri comprising:

a sheet-form member cut, scored and shaped to form a rectangular tube having a bottom and a top,

a bottom wall closing said bottom of said tube;

a lid selectively closing the top of said tube;

a potpourri bag filled with fragrant potpourri in said carton and having an open top gathered to form a confined neck in the bag,

said lid having a restricted opening therein through which the gathered neck of the bag is laced;

said neck having a passage extending from the interior of the bag to the ambient exteriorly of the carton; and

a supply of room fragrant potpourri within the bag and emitting scent through said passage to the ambient.

2. A potpourri package comprising:

a carton;

a bag of potpourri located within said carton,

said carton having four sides, a bottom, a top and a lid closing said top, said lid formed with an opening centrally disposed therein,

a top portion of the bag being threaded through said centrally disposed opening in the lid and extending upwardly therefrom,

the top portion of the bag having a restrictive passageway establishing limited communication between the interior of the bag and the exterior of the carton, a plurality of bottom flaps forming said bottom with each said flap connected to a lower edge of a corresponding one of said sides and said flaps interconnected together with one another and forming a collapsible carton bottom.

3. A potpourri package as set forth in claim 2, further comprising a pleated skirt formed of the top portion of the bag extending from the lid flattened about the lid.

4. A potpourri package as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of said four sides of the carton has an opening defining a window.

5. A potpourri package as claimed in claim 2, wherein said lid has a plurality of radial slits at said opening thereby to form a flexible periphery by tabs surrounding the opening.

6. A potpourri package as set forth in claim 2, further comprising a bow tied about the top portion of the bag extending from the lid of the carton.

7. A potpourri package as claimed in claim 2, wherein said carton further includes top side flaps operatively associated with said lid including cooperating cut-outs along edges thereof which form an opening in register with the opening in the lid upon closure of the lid and which passes and surround the top portion of the bag located below the lid.

8. In combination:

a potpourri package comprising;

a carton having a top wall thereof formed with a centrally disposed restricted opening therein;

a bag of scented potpourri inserted in said carton and said bag having an open top which is gathered and threaded through said restricted opening to form a neck in said bag,

said neck of said bag having a throat extending therethrough forming a passage extending between the interior of the bag and the ambient exteriorly of the carton and through which the scent of the potpourri may be vented to the ambient.

9. A potpourri package for room fragrant potpourri comprising:

a sheet-form body cut, scored and shaped to form a rectangular tube-like box body having a bottom and a top;

a wall closing said bottom of said box body;

a lid and a pair of closure flaps for selectively opening and closing said top of said box body,

said box body having front, rear and side panels extending between the top and bottom of said tube-like box body;

a potpourri bag filled with scented potpourri inserted into said carton through said top of the box body,

said bag being made of material forming transparent walls through which the potpourri contents of the bag may be viewed,

at least one of said panels having a window formed therein through which the bag and its contents may be viewed through said box body;

said lid and said closure flaps together with one another each having a restricted opening formed therein and adapted to register with one another when the closure flaps are closed and the lid overlies the closure flaps,

said bag having an open top gathered and laced and threaded through said restricted opening to form a confined neck in the bag,

said bag being of sufficient length relative to said box body so that the gathered top of the bag forms a skirt overlying said lid;

said confined neck of said bag having a passage extending from the interior of the bag to the ambient exteriorly of the carton through which the scent of the potpourri may be vented.

10. A potpourri package comprising:

a die cut sheet-form body embossed and perforated to provide a rectangular panel section connected at top and bottom edges to top and bottom flap sections, respectively;

rectangular first side, front, second side and back panels formed respectively from a right edge of the panel section by embossed creases separating the panels and adapted to form sides of a carton;

a back panel tab formed adjacent to and to the left of said back panel and adapted to operatively engage an interior surface of said first side panel;

bottom flaps formed in said bottom flap section along bottom edges of said panels and adapted to operatively interconnect with each other to form a bottom for the carton, but being collapsible flat when folded together;

top flaps formed in the top flap section along top edges of the panels, each of the top flaps including a cut-out along a top edge thereof, the top flaps being operatively associated with each other so that upon folding down of the top flaps, the cut-outs register with each other, and together with one another define a first hole;

a lid formed in the top flap section along a top edge of one of the panels, the lid including a second hole defined therein and being operatively associated with the top flaps so that the second hole in said lid registers with the first hole defined by the cut-outs upon closure of the lid;

a potpourri bag in said carton and having an open top gathered and threaded through said first and second holes in said flaps and in said lid to form a confined neck in the bag,

said neck having a passage extending from the interior of the bag to the ambient exteriorly of the carton through which the scent of the potpourri in the bag may be vented to ambient.

11. A potpourri package as defined in claim 10, wherein said lid includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced tabs separated by slits and forming a flexible periphery for said second hole in said lid.

12. A method of packaging fragrant potpourri, comprising the steps of:

filling an open top bag with scented potpourri;

inserting the bag of potpourri into the top of a lidded carton thereby to confine the bag in the carton;

gathering a necked down top portion of the bag;

threading the necked down top portion of the bag through a restricted opening in the lid while closing the lid and thereby form a restricted passageway in the necked down portion communicating between the interior of the bag and the exterior of the carton;

tieing a bow around the protruding neck-down portion of the bag without restricting the passageway in the bag communicating the interior of the bag to the exterior of the carton;

whereby a limited stream of scented fragrance may flow through the passage.